Evaluating of the Promotion of Strategic Alliance of Medical Devices Industry with Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

Applying Data Envelopment Analysis to evaluate efficiency in this study, representative enterprises, in major Medical devices industry production areas of Kaohsiung city, with cooperation with institutional consumers are studied. The research results are summarized as below. according to DEA, 1 DMU presents strong Medical devices industry strategic alliance efficiency, 4 DMUs show the Medical devices industry strategic alliance efficiency between 0.9 and 1, and 5 DMUs reveal the Medical devices industry strategic alliance efficiency lower than 0.9. 2. Sensitivity analysis is utilized for analyzing and finding out key factors in Medical devices industry strategic alliance, and the sensitivity to efficiency is understood by gradually removing inputs and outputs for DEA. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to provide actual assistance for Medical devices industry strategic alliance and reinforce the cooperation between corporate groups and institutional consumers through intra-industry alliance and horizontal alliance.